Sunlight causes the linkspam to bloom
When a good friend cuts you out of their life, it can be as devastating as the end of a romance. How should you cope? You know, I think sometimes we should accept that some friendships are dependent upon contingent conditions and when those go away, it's difficult to maintain the friendship (or maybe I'm still bitter about someone who I used to meet regularly for lunch who retired to The Provinces and I never hear from any more).
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An actual unicorn reports!!! I’m what couples are often looking for: a woman who is bisexual and enjoys the lifestyle. However, we note that she avoids commitment to any particular couple: my sense of 'unicorn' was 'couple looking for bisexual woman to commit to them'.
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I am not entirely persuaded that there was a connection rather than, you know, observation and imagination and stuff like that: George Eliot’s unorthodox love life shaped her masterpiece (does this paradigm ever get applied to bloke writers? - okay, there is the 'venomous depiction of former wife/lover' genre I suppose). But I think it does get that one doesn't have to go the full boho to be doing the unconventional and subversive thing.
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An important and timely book, in the wake of Grenfell Tower, which emphasises how public investment enriches lives, on the history of council housing.
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This sounds fascinating, if really a bit depressing: Collins penetrated London’s folk scene, but quickly encountered men who were threatened by her strong ideas about preserving the music’s integrity. Though having read that book The Imagined Village on Cecil Sharp, one is hardly surprised.
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Sinister death of a dodo: Murder most fowl: Oxford dodo 'shot in the back of the head'.
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Apparently netball is having a moment? England's netball success shines light on thriving UK club scene. Colour me boggled.
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Well, yes, perhaps, though - Salvador Dali? WOT??? - Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different; The Good Guys: 50 stories of men “who have showed that changing the world doesn’t require a sword or a corporate jet”. I mean, I can think of lots of examples whose 'daring to be different' was pretty much Same Old when you got down to it. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2754934.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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